"That quarterback is probably one of the best ones this early
that I've ever seen," RBV coach Eric Jorgensen said. "That guy can
throw the ball."

Lewis threw for 245 yards and three touchdowns, leading the No.
4 Highlanders to a 52-0 rout of RBV at Helix High on Friday
night.

"He was on the money," Jorgensen said of Lewis, who completed 15
of his 23 pass attempts.

Lewis was just one of many headaches for the Longhorns,
though.

When he wasn't dissecting RBV's secondary, the Highlanders'
running backs were gashing the Longhorns' defensive line. The
Longhorns gave up 436 total yards, including 18 first downs.

"They're a good football team," Jorgensen said. "They're a damn
good football team."

The game started on a promising note for RBV. On the sixth play,
senior defensive back Royce Copeland stepped in front of a Lewis
pass, intercepted it and returned it to the Helix 48-yard line. But
once the Longhorns' offense got on the field, it squandered the
opportunity, throwing an interception just three plays later.

That was the story for RBV all night. In 11 possessions, the
Longhorns gave the ball away seven times -- three interceptions,
three fumbles and one turnover on downs -- punted the ball three
times and had one blocked field goal. They crossed Helix's 35-yard
line just once, with less than two minutes left in the game, down
46-0.

And even that didn't pan out for RBV. On fourth down, with 15
seconds on the clock, Jorgensen sent out his field goal unit
because "we got to test our special teams, and that was only chance
we were going to get to do that," he said. But Helix blocked the
field goal, scooped up the ball and ran it back 60 yards for
another touchdown as time expired.

"We didn't come out as strong as we should have," RBV senior
Jacob Kuchinsky said. "We just didn't communicate and we didn't
execute what we needed to do."

Kuchinsky said his teammates might have had some first-game
jitters, but that wasn't any excuse to get blown out by 52.

"They're a pretty good team, but it should have been a closer
game than that," Kuchinsky said. "We'll be better next week."